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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450001503321

Titolo

Architecture as experience : radical changes in spatial practice / / edited by Dana Arnold and Andrew Ballantyne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , 2004

ISBN

0-415-30158-0

1-134-41752-7

1-280-03712-1

0-203-64376-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ArnoldDana

BallantyneAndrew

Disciplina

720/.1

Soggetti

Architecture and history

Space (Architecture)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustration credits; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Misprisions of Stonehenge; 'The mutability of all things': the rise, fall and rise of the Meta Sudans fountain in Rome; Piranesi's Pantheon; From medieval sacred place to modern secular space: changing perspectives on the cathedral and town of Chartres; Paths of empowerment: ritual reinscription of meaning on the plan of Amsterdam, 1886  1914; Caput mundi? St Peter's and the deterritorialised church; Places and memory: multiple readings of a plaza in Paris during the commemoration of the French Revolution

Three views of 'frontier' at the World's Columbian ExpositionThe erasure of history: from Victorian asylum to 'Princess Park Manor'; If walls could talk: exploring the dimensions of heterotopia at the Four Seasons Istanbul Hotel; Ritual as radical change: the burial of the Unknown Soldier and 'ways of using' the space of Washington, DC, 11 November 1921; London Bridge revisited; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the



volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it with theoretical sophistication,.